 However, all this remained talk, and this organization commission has never done anything.When the February Revolution took place in Petrograd in 1917, the governor of Bessarabia stepped down and passed his legal powers to Constantin Mimi, the President of the Gubernial Zemstvo, who was named "the Commissar of the Provisional Government in Bessarabia", with Vladimir Criste his deputy.Similar procedures took place in all regions of the Russian Empire; the chiefs of the Tsarist administrations passed their legal powers to the chiefs of the County and Governorate Zemstvos, which were then called "County/Governorate Commissars".